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Grixis control, aka the mid-range smasher

Pauper Artifact Control UBR (Grixis)

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Hello! This is a build me and a friend have been toying around for a couple of months. My friend wanted to make a boros control deck, that ended up jeskai. We added some stuff from kuldotha and later on changed the white stuff for black stuff, put in a bunch of artifact lands and here it is.

The idea here is simple. Remove everything in your path, counter what you cannot remove or what annoys you, and kill with Curse of the Pierced Heart , Evincar's Justice and your creatures. Something great about this deck is that some of your beaters have some utility: Evincar's Justice is the most powerful board wipe in the format, and Mulldrifter draws you a bunch of extra cards. Also if you have a Curse of the Pierced Heart and Evincar's Justice , you are dealing 3 damage per turn. This works fairly well with a single Pristine Talisman on board, because the damage diferences that the opponent takes with evincar's vs what you takes increases every turn.

The decks works fairly well, and i have a surpirising ton of fun with it, so i thought it would be cool to share it with the community, and see what you guys think of it. It can fare decently against aggro, ok against control and smashing against mid-range. Heavy discard package and heexproof creatures are its weekness, since it has a ton of targeting removal; also burn's probably a bad match up too. I didn't change it much because nobody runs bogles in my local meta and i haven't play against it in my testings yet (I run Patrician's Scorn in the sideboard just in case), and i'm not sure how to defend myself against discard effects.

Also it's worth to mention that it could use some extra life gain (My first build had Night's Whisper and Read the Bones and i realized i was helping my opponent to much to kill me) and some extra card draw. Despite having 4 Prophetic Prism and 4 Mulldrifter i'm feel i am short in hand quite often. I can get over that with recurrent effects like Firebolt , Chainer's Edict and Raven's Crime, but some extra draw would be nice. Also worth noticing is that the mana fixing that Prophetic Prism provides really brings everythig togheter. I may be experimenting with other 3 colors control decks with it in the future. I was amazed of how few mana consistency problems i had playing this, in contrast with playing dimir teachings.

Anyway, what do you think of it? I'd like to have some feedback about the deck, the sideboard and how to make it better :D Thanks if you have read my rumblings this far :P

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Date added 7 years
Last updated 7 years
Legality

This deck is not Pauper legal.

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.51
Folders Pauper, PAUPER, Decks to try, Pauper inspiration
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